Minor mystery

[flexagon]

Also: the skin on all my fingertips is peeling, all at once. A belated response to scuffing up my hands when I went bouldering 3+ weeks ago? Sudden-onset leprosy?

Bodies are really weird.

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[nevers.livejournal.com]

this happens to me every so often. i think it's just a form of eczema? it happens maybe 3–4 times a year, then goes away. it does sometimes seem to be triggered by general hand-scuffing, but not usually 3 weeks later! who knows.

[flexagon]

I suspect that it's essentially random. I've never been diagnosed with eczema of any kind... I think this has happened at least once before, though, maybe a few springtimes ago.

Anyway, shiny new fingertips are emerging! Mildly exciting. Very mildly exciting. :-)

[soong.livejournal.com]

once upon a time when i was climbing regularly i noticed my gripping skin getting hard and scaly and peely a few weeks after I quit regularly climbing. I figured my skin had adapted to the regular abrasion and had been growing at an excessive rate which was now no longer needed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

ha, that is also happening to me right now!